Reading unit with questions

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Unit 1: I’m goalie AGAIN!
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2. 3
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3. In the texts
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1 Read the texts on pages 2 and 3.
a Complete the table about the narrative on page 2.
Who are the characters? Where is it set? Write a title for this narrative.
b Complete the table about the narrative on page 3.
Who are the characters? Where is it set? Write a title for this narrative.
c What are three important parts of a narrative?
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2 a Find 10 words in the texts that have an apostrophe. Write them below.
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4. b Next to each word in 2a, write:
P if the apostrophe shows possession, eg Ben’s boots
or
L if the apostrophe shows that letters have been left out, eg isn’t.
Done
3 Change the words from past tense to present tense.
Example: Ben looked ___________________ up at his coach and smiled ___________________.
a “Hey Ben, are you ready for the big game?” asked _____________________ Coach.
b “Yep,” said ____________________ Ben, trying to sound like he was ____________________
excited as he patted _____________________ his hair back down on his head.
c He didn’t _____________________ want to be goalie and he wasn’t _____________________
happy at all.
d Mr Chapman told _____________________ us that he was _____________________ picking
the A and B teams today.
1 Who chose Ben to be the goalie?__________________________________________________
2 Give one reason why Ben might not tell the coach the truth.
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3 Have you ever felt like rats have been gnawing at your guts? Circle your answer.
yes maybe never
4 What was the score of the game Toby played?
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5 Why doesn’t Ryan choose Toby for his team?
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Read and learn
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looks smiles
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6 How do you think Toby would feel at the end of the game?
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7 Read the narrative on page 2 again and fill in the table.
a What do you find out b What do you find out c What do you find out
about Coach? about Ben? about the relationship
between Ben and Coach?
8 Read the narrative on page 3 again and fill in the table.
a What do you find out about Toby? b What do you find out about the
relationship between Toby and the
other players?
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6. 1 Choose a narrative from page 2 or 3.
I have chosen the narrative from page ____________.
2 Write some ideas for what could happen next.
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3 Choose your most interesting idea and write what happens next in the story.
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Who is telling the
story? Do you use
he, she, they, I, we
or us?
Use the past
tense.
Don’t forget to
include a problem,
followed by a
complication and
then a resolution.
Is your ending a
happy one or a
sad one?
A narrative tells a story.
It entertains, guides or teaches.
A story has a beginning, middle
and end. It has:
• a problem, or the main
character/s wants something
• one or more complications
• a resolution, where the problem
is resolved. It can be resolved in
a good or a bad way (a happy or
sad ending).
It entertains, guides or teaches.
A story has a beginning, middle
s wants something
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Your turn
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7. Common and proper nouns
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A noun is a naming word. It can be a person, place, feeling or thing.
A proper noun is a particular person, place or thing, such as Ben and
Bathurst Soccer Field. Proper nouns start with capital letters.
A common noun is a person, place, feeling or thing that is general, such as boy
and soccer field.
1 Circle the proper nouns.
a “Hey Ben, are you ready for the big game?”
b “You can be a mid-fielder, Toby,” Lisa said.
c “Scott wants to be goalie,” she said, smiling at him.
2 Circle the common nouns.
a Ben looked up at his coach and smiled.
b This wasn’t easy when it felt like rats were gnawing away at his guts.
c That’s how I got to be the eleventh player in Lisa’s team.
3 Draw Ben’s coach. Use common nouns to label as many parts of him as
possible, eg chin, nose, moustache.
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4 Did you use common or proper nouns to label Ben’s coach?
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5 Find a classmate to work with. Take it in turns to circle nouns on pages 2
and 3 of this workbook. Keep going until you cannot find any more. Done
6 Use these common nouns to complete the sentences.
Common nouns voice pants face week soccer
a Coach had selected Ben to be the team’s goalie for this ___________________.
b Inside his head a small ______________ teased, “Liar, liar, ______________ on fire.”
c He put on his best happy ____________________.
d “Don’t pick Toby,” one of the boys whispered to Ryan. “He’s hopeless at
______________________.”
7 Write at least four nouns in each column of the table.
They don’t have to be nouns from the stories on pages 2 and 3.
Write common nouns in one colour and proper nouns in a different colour.
person place feeling thing
Lisa field excitement goal
love
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